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Latest Fact-Checks In Rhode Island

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Peter Palumbo
Peter Palumbo
stated on March 20, 2012 a talk radio show.
"Every poll you see, the overwhelming majority of people want [E-Verify]."
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By Alex Kuffner • March 25, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on March 12, 2012 a news release
"More than 27,000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada."
True
By Edward Fitzpatrick • March 18, 2012
Robert Jacquard
Robert Jacquard
stated on March 6, 2012 a speech
"There are a lot of casinos across the country that have gone bankrupt."
True
By Alex Kuffner • March 15, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on February 24, 2012 a speech
Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States."
True
By Alex Kuffner • March 2, 2012
Richard Licht
Richard Licht
stated on February 5, 2012 a television interview
"We aren't the only state cutting back on public television."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 14, 2012
Eric Holder
Eric Holder
stated on December 13, 2011 a speech
"After filing a lawsuit in Rhode Island, we reached an agreement with state agencies that resulted in more voters being registered in the first full month after our lawsuit than in the entire previous two-year reporting period."
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By Alex Kuffner • December 29, 2011
Eugene McKenna
Eugene McKenna
stated on November 25, 2011 a news story
"Rhode Island already gets more revenue per capita from gambling than any other state in the country."
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By Alex Kuffner • December 14, 2011
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on September 21, 2011 a speech
"The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close."
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By Lynn Arditi • November 20, 2011
Edith Ajello
Edith Ajello
stated on October 14, 2011 commentary piece
"Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended."
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By Lynn Arditi • October 21, 2011
David Quiroa
David Quiroa
stated on October 3, 2011 a news release
"Under Governor Almond the RI DMV had a program that allowed undocumented [people to] use their Personal Tax Identification Number . . . to apply [for] and receive a RI driver’s license."
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By Lynn Arditi • October 16, 2011
Nick Tsiongas
Nick Tsiongas
stated on September 6, 2011 newspaper commentary
"Health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget."
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By Edward Fitzpatrick • October 9, 2011
Brian Newberry
Brian Newberry
stated on October 2, 2011 a television interview
"Legally, it doesn't make any difference" which state district you live in when running for Congress.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 7, 2011
Helen Glover
Helen Glover
stated on September 7, 2011 a radio talk show
"A family of four can make up to $88,000 a year and still get a subsidy for health insurance" under the new federal health care law.
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By Richard Salit • October 5, 2011
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on July 29, 2011 a Senate speech
"In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs.
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By Edward Fitzpatrick • September 22, 2011
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on September 4, 2011 a letter posted on a blog
Says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force "does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for American service members."
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By Lynn Arditi • September 18, 2011
James Parisi
James Parisi
stated on August 21, 2011 a TV news show
A national study of 2,500 charter schools shows that "maybe 20 percent do better than the community public schools, 40 percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference."
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By Lynn Arditi • September 1, 2011
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 16, 2011 a speech in the U.S. Senate
"Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans, hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen."
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By Richard Salit • July 17, 2011
Gary Sasse
Gary Sasse
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on 10 News Conference
Rhode Island spends "52 percent more per capita on human service programs than the national average."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 8, 2011
Paul Doughty
Paul Doughty
stated on June 12, 2011 an appearance on WPRI's "Newsmakers.
"Providence is one of the busiest fire departments for its relative size in the country."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 24, 2011
Michael Cutler
Michael Cutler
stated on June 7, 2011 an appearance on the "Helen Glover ShowV
"A couple of hundred American cities are infested by members of the Mexican cartels."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 19, 2011
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